The American Hospital Association has sent a letter to the Office of Management and Budget indicating its support for CMS to develop a public health database that electronically collects the data hospitals are required to submit to meet meaningful use…

Secure access management software vendor Imprivata plans to sell 5.75 million shares at $16 each during its upcoming initial public offering for an aggregate offering price of about $92 million.

Joy Pritts has tendered her resignation as the ONC’s chief privacy officer, effective July 12.

  The following is a roundup of recent health IT go-lives that were reported in the past week.

The following is a roundup of recent health IT vendor contracts reported in the last week.

The following data breaches occurred over the past two weeks, starting with the most recent.

Santa Rosa, Calif.-based St. Joseph Health is notifying 34,000 patients of a potential data breach following a burglary at the Redwood Regional Medical Group office, also in Santa Rosa, which St. Joseph health recently acquired, according to a North Bay Business…

The global electronic medical record market is poised to reach $18.3 billion by 2018, growing at a compound annual growth rate of 9 percent, according to a MicroMarketMonitor news release.

Medocity, a healthcare startup based in Morristown, N.J., raised $1.6 million to support its iCancer Health app, a collection of tools allowing cancer patients to monitor their health, manage their treatment and track their progress, according to a MedCity News…

The Department of Veterans Affairs is planning on releasing a request for proposals for a new scheduling system, according to an FCW report.